Today's Daily Brain Teaser (Jun 22, 2014)

Ark Mark



Each clue below is for two words that differ by only one letter: The letter has been either added to the beginning or the end of the word - all the rest are in the same order. In the "hint" you will see the lengths of the words, in the proper order.

For example "Writing on the wall of Noah's boat (3,4)" would result in "Ark Mark". Can you get the rest?



1. Complaint about a golf club part.

2. Insect being angry and vocal.

3. Angry buccaneer.

4. The second of the two dishes you mentioned.

5. Scrawny unidentified object.





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It took early “humans” 110,000 generations of using stone tools before…

It took early “humans” 110,000 generations of using stone tools before controlling fire, another 20,000 generations until written language was invented, and only another 250 generations until we put a man on the moon. In 2 or 3 generations, humans went from barely having electricity, to having the Internet. And in a single generation went from slow mainframe computers to the incredible smart phones of today.

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Coca-Cola had a price of 5¢ for over 70 years (1886-1959) and at one point…

Coca-Cola had a price of 5¢ for over 70 years (1886-1959) and at one point the company tried to raise the price by asking the U.S. Treasury to issue a 7.5¢ coin. In another attempt, The Coca-Cola Company briefly implemented a strategy where one in every nine vending machine bottles was empty. The empty bottle was called an “official blank.” This meant that, while most nickels inserted in a vending machine would yield cold drinks, one in eight patrons would have to insert two nickels in order to get a bottle. This effectively raised the price to 5.625 cents.

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In 2005 the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, insulted…

In 2005 the Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi, insulted Finnish cuisine and joked that Finns ate “marinated reindeer”. In 2008, Finland won an international pizza contest, beating Italy. The name of the winning pizza was “Pizza Berlusconi” and it was made of smoked reindeer.

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It took 11 hours for Seattle police to subdue a man who…

It took 11 hours for Seattle police to subdue a man who was standing in an open parking lot and armed with just a samurai sword.



They asked him again to please put down the sword and surrender; he again refused. They offered him $50 for his sword; he ignored their bribe. They tempted him with a Big Mac; he held fast. They spoke fondly of his dead brother in hopes of changing his mind; he was unmoved. They tried reverse psychology on him, telling him Satan was preventing him from surrendering; he wasn’t fooled by their lies. They shined bright lights at him; he wore shades. Growing desperate, nonlethal projectiles and pepper spray were tried; he repelled them through sheer willpower. It seemed nothing would stop lone Apollo from standing his ground on the sidewalk athwart the combined forces of the City.

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There’s a city in Georgia with a golf cart path infrastructure…

There’s a city in Georgia with a golf cart path infrastructure over the whole town, where the large majority of the population own golf carts and the kids grow up driving them instead of cars.

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There’s a tribe in Africa that instead of punishing someone…

There’s a tribe in Africa that instead of punishing someone for their wrong deeds, they will surround that person and say nothing but good things the person has done.

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Brain Teaser 6/21/2014

1. If the date of the last Saturday of last month and the first Sunday of this month do not add up to 33, what month are we in?



2. Jason decided to give his bike 3 coats of paint. Which coat would go on the first?

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Today in History for 21st June 2014

Historical Events

1672 - French troops under King Louis XIV occupy Utrecht

1942 - Rommel takes Tobruk in North Africa

1952 - Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Women's Western Golf Open

1981 - 12-bottle case of 1979 Napamedoc Cabernet wine auctioned for $24,000

1990 - NYC's Zodiac killer shoots 4th victim, Larry Parham

2000 - Section 28 (outlawing the 'promotion' of homosexuality in the United Kingdom) is repealed in Scotland with a 99 to 17 vote.

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Famous Birthdays

1759 - Alexander J. Dallas, American statesman and financier (d. 1817)

1884 - Claude "Auk" Auchinleck, British fieldmarshal North-Africa

1918 - Eddie Lopat, American baseball player (d. 1992)

1937 - Anna Davies, prof of Comparative Philology (Oxford U)

1962 - Viktor Tsoi, Russian musician

1981 - Brandon Flowers, American singer and keyboardist (The Killers)

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Famous Deaths

1865 - Frances Adeline Seward, wife of United States Secretary of State William H. Seward (b. 1824)

1940 - Edouard Vuillard, French painter/graphic artist, dies

1944 - Jan Bonekamp, Dutch resistance fighter/friend of Hannie Schaft, dies

1975 - Heinz Lau, composer, dies at 49

1997 - Fidel Velázquez Sánchez, Mexican labour leader (b. 1900)

2004 - Leonel Brizola, Brazilian politician (b. 1922)

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